File organization

lol

I create folders with specific categories and subcategories with the purpose of finding content with ease divided by media type preferably but lately i just leave everything in the chaotic mess named the downloads folder.

I have the traditional 'Pictures', 'Downloads', 'Movies', etc, and create subfolders in those to narrow it down. Movies gets divided by type, with sections for videos i've taken, and ones i've downloaded using youtube-dl, and some other ones based on certain topics. Pictures generally has a meme folder with random pepes and other shit, some based on topics, and the rest just get dumped directly into the folder. Downloads is basically "Shit I haven't sorted out yet or i'm gonna delete soon", although there sometimes is a torrents folder for when I want to seed a Loonix distro or something. If I save porn, it gets stored in a VeraCrypt container somewhere in one of the folders, and Documents is for important stuff I need to get done, separated by who or what i'm doing it for.

I use a special tagging system called sackytag. It makes symbolic links to folders named with the tag name. When searching by tags, it finds images that are common to all specified tags/folders and puts symbolic links to those images in, you guessed it, a folder for search results.

Main Hard Drive

Build, Downloads, Documents, VM

Build = Git, Subversion, etc
Downloads = Staging area
Documents = Notes I may or may not delete
VM = Self explanatory

HDD A (with rsync nightly B)
Blu-ray TV Shows = imaged
DVD TV Shows = imaged
Games = imaged by console type

HDD C (with rsync nightly D)
Blu-Ray Movies = imaged
DVD Movies = imaged
Audio = FLAC
Games = ROMS by console type
Backup = Documents by file type, Compressed files by file type
Other = ???

Family photos, videos, and other sensitive info are burned to DVD or saved to flash and taken offline.

if your just going to rsync two drives why wouldn't you use raid 1

I don't like to wade through my home folder, so I just make a dozen or so categorized folders on my desktop and sort files into them. I might have one level of subfolders below that, but I don't find it helpful to micro-sort everything into gazillions of subfolders.

isn't that just an sql database?

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books - has pdfs, long text files, and a few real books
docs - work and a few things from school that I never deleted
downloads - ramdisk that holds my downloads until I sort them
files - misc files that I use often, mostly text
games - pretty empty but I didn't have anywhere better to put the few games I play
images - most autistic folder. Has many subfolders containing up to 700 images each, each named and run through an image optimizer. I sometimes edit images to have a good aspect ratio as well
mail - my email. I don't use it often but it's there.
music - unorganized mess of music that I listened to once and thought I should save. All opus.

ls -Rtr

faggot

Why?

I used to cut out and resize ahegao faces from hentai just for fun. I'm cured now.

POP3?

My man, same here. Mostly converted from FLAC, those that were MP3 I converted for consistency, because of "autism".

Directories and subdirectories. Images, Music, and Videos under ~, non music audio, old textfiles, PDFs, scripts, games, and archives under ~/Documents

Downloads are in a ramdisk to encourage me to sort them, since they would disappear if I turned the power off.
My mail is IMAP.

So it is pretty much just backup thing? I asked because usually when people have mail directory they also use POP3.

I would love to have a booru-like image manager and tagger, that also works as an alternative file picker for gtk/qt. Too much work, though.

General file association directories like Images, Videos and Documents.
Everything else is tagged in file metadata for easy search. Directories are thing of the past.

Hardlinks are your friend. Keep one directory that stores all the files, then create separate directories for each "tag" you'd like to categorise by. From each category, hardlink the files in the storage directory that match that category. Using this method requires no additional storage space, and the same file can be referenced from multiple categories. Deletion can be a bit of a pain with this system, because to actually remove a file you must unlink it from every location. But, then, you wouldn't be going to the trouble of tagging and categorising a file that wasn't a "keeper" in the first place.

One "Untitled Folder"

Luckily somebody already did it 4U.

RAID1 does nothing to protect against file corruption. RAID5 and 6 are better, but it's overkill for my purpose.

ehh it's ok

i never thought about it that way, that definitely makes sense

That's sackytag, only it uses symlinks instead.

I use mkdir, ln, cp, and mv.

Hydrus is big, slow, and bloaty.

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I'm not surprised others have used this method. Though I would say hardlinks are better suited than softlinks for this approach, at least for the most common use case where all files reside on the same filesystem. Unless you need to link files across filesystems, the overhead of softlinking isn't justified.

I was thinking primarily of an "open file" dialog on steroids, with tagger that works for everything including images.
It's mostly finding an image when you need it that's a problem. I'm not completely sure how hydrus handles that.

Sadly is bloated af and bothersome to install on unix systems. But it's the only thing I know of that supports tagging and multiple filetypes. I would be interested in a "open file" dialog you said, but sadly there isn't really a market for that. Not too many spergs have such a huge collection of smug anime girls that they need an extensive booru just to keep track of things. I have made around 8 seperate download folders over the years, all with 1000+ images and webms each. I used to work with "find" + creative filename, but it's quite limited and is getting tiresome.

I sort them by topic
github.com/Capaverde/debug/tree/master/index

little to no subtrees

i wrote a cli tool for editing metadata on some image and video formats, with some modification it could be used for tagging, would need to write a separate tool specifically for searching by tags. cli is nice and not bloaty. but the downside is it'd be a very specific tool, a tool for spergs.

i've been looking for a next project i guess this can be it.

but tbh i make folders by topic and use find -iname *keyword*

each directory contains many subdirectories

Program Files (installed software and games)
Downloads (from web browser)
Downloads (from torrents)
Virtual Machines

Photos (that I made myself)
Videos (that I made myself)
Audio recordings (that I made myself)
// I plan to merge those 3 directories above into single one

Music
Videos
Books
Saved websites
Projects

Projects is the most important folder. I am doing more and more project-based sorting of files now, instead of type-based sorting.
When I have a project I just put all resources (documents, images, audio etc) into that project folder. Of course often I have subdirectories and subprojects.

Ain't using one.

On Microsoft Windows you could just open root folder and search for *.*
then sort by date and set view to thumbnails.
But on shit linux it's probably not possible

I convert MP3's to opus too, but only the high bitrate ones.

I have nothing on my desktop everything is structured. I just use folders and quick links in my file manager.
The structure depends on what is being stored. Lately I have taken a liking to using symbolic links (shotcuts) when categorising media like anime or manga.
For instance for anime I have a completed and watching folder, The watching is just currently airing automatically downloaded series awaiting to be categorised once completed.
For the completed anime I dump all of them in the one folder, there is another folder next to it containing symbolic links pointing to each entry.
When I want to categorise by whatever rating measure I desire (currently rate by folders in alphabetic order with A highest) I simply copy and paste the relevant symbolic link(s) that way I don't have to worry about reshuffling the original data should I change my mind about how I want to organise stuff later and can rate the original files in different ways simultaneously without copying the original data again.

thanks doc

Work stuff, non work stuff. Then from there porn or not.
But usually I start a culling once I see my system getting too overwhelmed with cruft. The files that makes it can get saved onto DVD. Those who don't make it will be purged when Zion is destroyed, again.

Home/ general category/ files general and specific subcategory
I use this for everything

Is there a good command line file tagging and viewing system available on OpenBSD? I’ve been wanting one for a while, but I’ve had no luck.